Nostrum Mendum

Oops - the Online Camp Booking didn’t have an entry for the Year 9/10 Monopoly Run...

It now does - book your place online!

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Closing the Stable Door After the Horse has Long Bolted

If you’ve ever wanted to see the meaning of the phrase Shutting the Stable Door after the Horse has Bolted incarnate - tonight’s your chance; yup, we’re running the first tranche of the Self Defence course that we thought might be useful for people for some reason...

As well as this, we’ll also be giving a (short!) Presentation of the Duke of Edinburgh Award work we’ve been doing behind the scenes with the Scout Association, signing up new people and signing off some of the existing participants, and there will be an opportunity to take part in Shrove Tuesday Thursday pancakes.

They’ll also be details of the Years 9 & 10 Monopoly Run in London, more details for the Chase Walk, information about the Summer Camp on Guernsey, and breaking news about a possible climbing course for Year 13s in March. We’re also going to order the next lot of Explorer Drill Tops, so let us know tonight if you don’t have one.

It really is the place where it’s all happening tonight! Normal time - WITH UNIFORM...

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(Oh - and apologies. There was a bit of a technical hitch with the Twitter feed, so the details didn’t get updated whilst we were away. Needless to say it was a fab. week and the snow conditions were great! And everyone returned intact...).
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Poor, Lost, Chase Walk Souls, Wandering the Earth for Eternity...

...Well - they might be if they don’t have any compasses. Which they won’t have at the moment, ‘cause they’re all in your bedrooms. Can we have them back please, ASAP - as there’s about £600 worth currently with you lot (these things ain’t cheap!).

Cheers,

Andy

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Data Protection Stuff

A quick note to remind everyone that we hold the following information on Explorers:

Name, address, ‘phone number, mobile number, date of birth, parent(s) name(s), details of any allergies or special needs, subs paid, camp payments made, gift aid status, Duke of Edinburgh Award progress, Scout Awards progress.

Let Andy know if you want to see your entry.
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Closed for Holiday

We’re off skiing and snowboarding for the week, so no updates here. However, we will be updating the Twitter feed to be found over there

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Thursday's Programme...

... Obviously didn’t go according to plan. Apologies to everyone, and we’re going to take time out to review what happened, and what lessons we need to learn from it. I’ll be writing out to everyone’s parents with an update over the weekend, and there will be a parents’ meeting next Thursday for anyone who wants to come up and discuss.

What is apparent, though, is that just about all the lads who were attacked were attacked because they’d gone to the help of younger Explorers. That is awesome, and is something that you all should be extremely proud of. It reflects rather better on you than on the gits in the Park that did this.

If you do remember something, do give me a call and I’ll pass the information on to the Police.

Thanks,

Andy
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Monopoly Run

If you’re in Year 9 or 10, we’ve got a camp just for you guys lined up at the start of the Easter holidays. More details in the Documents section!


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Tonight's Programme...

... is on!

Normal time at HQ. For those that fancy going outside there will be an opportunity - however, we won’t force people as its possible that you’re all snowed out... We’ll also be doing some stuff indoors as well, as we don’t want you all to freeze!


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(PS - ‘cause we’re nice, there’s no uniform required tonight - we recommend something warm might be useful!)

(PPS - skiing people - we forgot to mention that we’ll be traveling up in Drill Tops. But now you know...)

<= (PPPS - we’ve updated the Twitter feed that’s located somewhat to the left of here! This is now Intrepid’s own feed, rather than Andy’s - and is worth checking out, particularly when we’re away on camp, as it can be updated by text message, which is a bit easier to do from a field than updating the main website.)
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Skiing People

Listen up skiing people. Here’s the latest situation as we have it.

The following people are going:

- Matt A
- Andy B
- Nick B
- Chris B
- Alex B
- Naomi B (
5 B’s - we rule!)
- Jim C
- Jono E
- Scott G
- George G
- Charlotte H (yup - Bob...)
- Joe H
- Edd J
- Liz K
- Alex L (yup - EFD!)
- Dave W
- Rhys W

So far we’ve had the skiing info. we need off Matt A (who cheated and got Joe to do it for him...), Nick B, Alex B, Scott G, Joe H, Liz K, Rhys W (who cheated and got Andy to do it for him...).
Which means we need height / weight / shoe size / chosen activity ASAP from the following people (PLEASE - trying to organise this stuff is difficult enough without having to wait days for people to get around to replying!):

- Chris B
- Jim C (you sent an email about boarding but no height / weight / shoe size info.!)
- Jono E
- George G
- Charlotte H
- Edd J
- Alex L
- Dave W

The skiing Final Notes and Activity Form are now in the Documents section. PLEASE read them and let Andy know ASAP if there are any questions).
DON’T FORGET THE ACTIVITY FORM NEXT SATURDAY. There’s probably at least one occasion that everyone on the list has forgotten their Activity Form, but we can hope... We will need to go around to people’s houses to collect on the Saturday if Activity Forms are forgotten. This will make us late in Scotland and mean that we don’t have time for Dinner. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ;]

This Friday’s session is at the Ackers, and we’re meeting there at 7pm. You’ll need warm stuff and £10. So far the following people are confirmed:

- Matt A
- Andy B
- Jim C
- Joe H
- Liz K
- Rhys W

If your name’s not down, please let Andy know ASAP (spot a theme here?).

That’s probably it for the moment. Queries and questions via the usual channels.

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Thursday's Programme

A quick heads up. At the time of writing this (Wednesday) it’s looking as if tomorrow may be somewhat chaotic again with snow. We’re not yet sure how difficult travel’s going to be tomorrow evening, so we’ll update the website 6pm tomorrow with a final yay or nay as to whether Explorers is going ahead.

If it does go ahead, we’ll be at the HQ.

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